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Overview

Roshanka Ranasinghe is affiliated with the IHE Delft Institute for Water Education in the Netherlands. Their research primarily focuses on Earth and Planetary Sciences as well as Environmental Science, with a significant number of publications in related subfields such as Earth-Surface Processes, Atmospheric Science, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, and Oceanography.

Their work addresses various topics including Coastal and Marine Dynamics, Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research, Coastal Wetland Ecosystem Dynamics, Flood Risk Assessment and Management, Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing, Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies, and Climate Variability and Models.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Roshanka Ranasinghe include:

  • Michalis Vousdoukas
  • Trang Minh Duong
  • Janaka Bamunawala
  • Panagiotis Athanasiou
  • Ebru Kirezci

Their research has been published extensively in various scientific venues. The most common publication outlets are:

  • Scientific Reports
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Coastal Engineering Proceedings
  • Nature Climate Change
  • Nature Communications

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Roshanka Ranasinghe include:

  • "Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion", 2020, Nature Climate Change
  • "Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century", 2020, Scientific Reports
  • "Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels", 2021, Nature Climate Change
  • "A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping", 2021, Nature Communications
  • "Projected 21st century changes in extreme wind-wave events", 2020, Science Advances

Best Publications

  • The State of the World’s Beaches

    Arjen Luijendijk;Gerben Hagenaars;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Fedor Baart

  • Sandy coastlines under threat of erosion

    Michalis I. Vousdoukas;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Lorenzo Mentaschi;Theocharis A. Plomaritis;Theocharis A. Plomaritis

  • Projections of global-scale extreme sea levels and resulting episodic coastal flooding over the 21st Century

    Ebru Kirezci;Ian R. Young;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Sanne Muis

  • A New Alternative to Saving Our Beaches from Sea-Level Rise: The Sand Engine

    Marcel J.F. Stive;Matthieu A. de Schipper;Arjen P. Luijendijk;Stefan G.J. Aarninkhof

  • The Southern Oscillation Index, wave climate, and beach rotation

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Rodney McLoughlin;Andrew Short;Graham Symonds

  • Estimating coastal recession due to sea level rise: Beyond the Bruun rule

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;David Callaghan;Marcel J. F. Stive

  • Shoreline response to submerged structures: A review

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Ian L. Turner

  • Extreme sea levels at different global warming levels

    Claudia Tebaldi;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Michalis Vousdoukas;D. J. Rasmussen

  • Assessment and integration of conventional, RTK-GPS and image-derived beach survey methods for daily to decadal coastal monitoring

    Mitchell D. Harley;Ian L. Turner;Andrew D. Short;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe

  • Morphodynamics of intermediate beaches: a video imaging and numerical modelling study

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Graham Symonds;Kerry Black;Rob Holman

  • A global analysis of extreme coastal water levels with implications for potential coastal overtopping

    Rafael Almar;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Erwin W. J. Bergsma;Erwin W. J. Bergsma;Harold Diaz

  • Numerical modeling of low-frequency wave dynamics over a fringing coral reef

    Ap Van Dongeren;Ryan Lowe;Andrew Pomeroy;Andrew Pomeroy;Duong Minh Trang

  • A reevaluation of coastal embayment rotation: The dominance of cross‐shore versus alongshore sediment transport processes, Collaroy‐Narrabeen Beach, southeast Australia

    M. D. Harley;M. D. Harley;I. L. Turner;A. D. Short;R. Ranasinghe;R. Ranasinghe

  • African heritage sites threatened as sea-level rise accelerates

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  • Climate-change impact assessment for inlet-interrupted coastlines

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Trang Minh Duong;Stefan Uhlenbrook;Stefan Uhlenbrook;Dano Roelvink;Dano Roelvink

  • Morphodynamic upscaling with the MORFAC approach: Dependencies and sensitivities

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Cilia Swinkels;Arjen Luijendijk;Dano Roelvink

  • Projected 21st century changes in extreme wind-wave events

    Alberto Meucci;Ian R. Young;Mark Hemer;Ebru Kirezci

  • The effects of storm clustering on beach profile variability

    Harshinie Karunarathna;Douglas Pender;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Andrew D. Short

  • The initial morphological response of the sand engine: a process based modelling study

    A.P. Luijendijk;Ranasinghe W M R J B Ranasinghe;B. Huisman;M.A. de Schipper

  • Comparison of Coastal Vulnerability Index applications for Barcelona Province

    Aysun Koroglu;Aysun Koroglu;Roshanka Ranasinghe;Roshanka Ranasinghe;José A. Jiménez;Ali Dastgheib

  • Rip spacing and persistence on an embayed beach

    Robert A. Holman;G. Symonds;G. Symonds;E. B. Thornton;R. Ranasinghe

  • A morphodynamic model to simulate the seasonal closure of tidal inlets

    Roshanka Ranasinghe;Charitha Pattiaratchi;Gerhard Masselink

Frequent Co-Authors

Marcel J. F. Stive
Marcel J. F. Stive Delft University of Technology
David P. Callaghan
David P. Callaghan University of Queensland
Andrew D. Short
Andrew D. Short University of Sydney
Ian L. Turner
Ian L. Turner University of New South Wales
Charitha Pattiaratchi
Charitha Pattiaratchi University of Western Australia
Mitchell D. Harley
Mitchell D. Harley University of New South Wales
Ad Reniers
Ad Reniers Delft University of Technology
Shreedhar Maskey
Shreedhar Maskey IHE Delft Institute for Water Education
Robert A. Holman
Robert A. Holman Oregon State University
Kathleen L. McInnes
Kathleen L. McInnes Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation

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